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Quotes About Action

My point of power is in the present. This means that irregardless of what has happened in the past, or what the current state of affairs are... they are no longer relevant, for my point of power is in the present! With the present moment I can make things happen and change the reality to something that I want, everything else is irrelevant! Start today! ***
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
give thanks for my whirlwind success. I sweep all before me, for I work with the Spirit and follow the Divine Plan of my life. The decks are cleared for Divine action.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
Faith without works (or action) is dead." Active Faith impresses the subconscious with expectance and you keep your contact with Universal Intelligence
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
Man should watch himself hourly to detect if his motive for action is fear or faith.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
Demand the lead, saying, "Infinite spirit, reveal to me the way, let me know if there is anything for me to do." The answer will come through
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
There is always plenty on man's pathway; but it can only be brought into manifestation through desire, faith or the spoken word. Jesus Christ brought out clearly that man must make the first move.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
people are happy, they usually become selfish, and automatically the law of Karma is set in action. Man often suffers loss through lack of appreciation.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do, he does not have to.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.
~ Florence Shinn
No hagas lo que quieres ni lo que debes, haz lo que te convenga.
~ Florencia Bonelli
Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an action, by causing us to feel them; and we cannot fail to finish by knowing that fire burns, if we have burned ourselves. For this rough teacher, I should like, if possible, to substitute a more gentle one. I mean Foresight. For this purpose I shall examine the consequences of certain economical phenomena, by placing in opposition to each other those which are seen, and those which are not seen.
~ Frederic Bastiat
What is freedom? It is the sum total of freedoms. To be free, under one's own responsibility, to think and act, to speak and write, to work and trade, to teach and learn, that alone is to be free.
~ Frederic Bastiat
The State is also subject to the law of Malthus. It is continually living beyond its means, it increases in proportion to its means, and draws its support solely from the substance of the people. Woe to the people who are incapable of limiting the sphere of action of the State.
~ Frederic Bastiat
To die is man's finest action - and what might be his worst? To be born.
~ Frederic Chopin
para saber lo que hay que hacer, pregúntate, a propósito de la acción que te propones: «¿Podría hacerla otra persona en mi lugar?». Si la respuesta es sí, abandónala, a menos que sea absolutamente indispensable.
~ Frédéric Gros
Conheço muitos que não puderam quando deviam porque não quiseram quando podiam.
~ Francois Rabelais
He who spends too long regretting his ruined crop will be neglect to plant next year's harvest.
~ Francois Lelord
Because there are times when getting up to mischief isn't mischievous and other times when it is and you shouldn't do it.
~ Francois Lelord
We will take the good will for the deed.
~ Francois Rabelais
Bonheur: faire ce que l'on veut et vouloir ce que l'on fait
~ Françoise Giroud
We are what we do and what we allow to be done.
~ Frances Hardinge
There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?
~ Frances Mayes
Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action.
~ Frances Moore Lappé
I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
~ Frances Willard